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Ovrutskiy, A. "The industrial revolution." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33775.
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools
The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. By the 1830s the following gains had been made in important technologies.
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Kulinich. "NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION." Thesis, Київ 2018, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/33778.
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Carvalho, Alexa G. Ziskin Rochelle. "Josiah Wedgwood and the Industrial Revolution." Diss., UMK access, 2005.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005."A thesis in art history." Typescript. Advisor: Rochelle Ziskin. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed March 12, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-85). Online version of the print edition.
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Goldschmidt, Kyle. "The fourth industrial revolution and human capital development." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/62483.
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The focus of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been on its implications on Human Capital and its need to develop “21st-Century Skills" through education to ensure future labour and capital complementarity. Human Capital combined with 21st-Century Skills, it is claimed, can together generate economic growth, jobs and propel an economy into the next Industrial Revolution. However, Schwab’s (2016) concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, make no distinction between the Average Worker and the Knowledge Elite and their relationship to each other and successful economic growth. The different nature of these skills is absent in the literature to date. A critical analysis of literature will be used to examine Schwab’s (2016) claim of a Fourth Industrial Revolution and assess how the Average Worker and the Knowledge Elite relate to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and 21st-Century Skills. The evidence is provided on how both the Average Worker and the Knowledge Elite are key contributors to economic growth and will be important in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Walker, Stephen J. "The early Industrial Revolution in the Leen valley, Nottinghamshire." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43201/.
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At Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, there is physical evidence of 18th century industry. This study focuses on George Robinson and Sons, who were cotton-spinners between 1778 and 1830. The firm’s records have not survived, so detail of their operation has been re-constructed using alternative sources. The thesis investigates some accepted ideas about the concept of industrialisation, and attempts to address the question of when, where and what constituted the Industrial Revolution in this particular locality. The study adopts a transdisciplinary approach, viewing physical evidence from the landscape alongside documentary sources. Evidence from archaeological exploration is presented. The historic landscape is viewed in the context of biographical and socio-economic data relating to people and events. These water-powered mills were the first in the world to apply steam to cotton-spinning. The study considers the evolution of the water-system, and the introduction of steam to this pioneer site. It also examines transport networks, delivery of raw materials and capital expenditure. Personnel associated with the mills are identified, charting their employment and migration. Cartographic sources of different ages are used to provide a spatial framework for the description. The principles of reverse engineering are applied - attempting to understand, on one hand, the function of the mills and water-system, and on the other to de-construct the factors which influenced this innovative undertaking. It is generally accepted that three key attributes of the Industrial Revolution were adoption of new technology, introduction of centralised production, and socio-economic changes, accompanied by urbanisation. The Robinson mills could be perceived as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the Leen valley. However, when the company was wound up (in 1830) industrial activity in the valley reverted to manufacture of hosiery and bobbin-net lace, both of which were, at that time, cottage industries.
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Brezis, Elise Scheiner. "Money, capital flows and protectionism : the Industrial Revolution revisited." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121911.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.Includes bibliographical references.
by Elise Scheiner Brezis.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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PESSINA, GIANMARIA LUIGI. "INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS AND THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, RECENT CHANGES AND THE INDUSTRY 4.0 CHALLENGE." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/901444.
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Industrial districts represent the past and the future of the Italian production landscape. Nowadays, they are one of the few examples of economic dynamism in extra-urban areas. In recent years, these socioeconomic agglomerations have been facing huge challenges, including international competition, financial crises and servitization of the manufacturing industry. However, it is the technological change of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that represents the greatest challenge and at the same time, the greatest opportunity for industrial districts. Thus, observing how these places are facing this technological revolution is of particular interest. This thesis is based on a mix-method approach and is organised into six main chapters. Chapter 1 is dedicated to describing the theoretical backgrounds at the base of local development studies, focusing particularly on endogenous factors. More precisely, this chapter is divided into three sections. Firstly, we discuss the notion of economic embeddedness. Secondly, we provide an outline of the so-called local development ‘Italian school’ centred on the industrial district concept. Finally, we present a more recent contribution to the field from the emerging approach of new evolutionary economic geography. Chapter 2 is based on descriptive analyses aiming to grasp the current role of industrial districts in the Italian economy and how they have changed in recent years. Chapter 3 introduces the theoretical notion of territorial manufacturing servitization and tests the hypothesis connected to it, alongside the ones that emerged in the first chapter, through a multilevel regression. Chapter 4 is more theoretical; it presents a detailed discussion of the Industry 4.0 concept and reflects on the relationship between technological changes, economic organisation and places. Chapter 5 empirically investigates the sectorial and territorial articulation of the Italian 4.0 policy by using an original dataset. It also performs a quantitative counterfactual analysis to understand if industrial district firms show a higher propensity in adopting 4.0 technologies. Lastly, Chapter 6 utilises qualitative methods to compare two metalworking industrial districts. These last empirical steps allow for investigating the hypothesis that emerged in the previous chapter and the role of local governances in fostering Industry 4.0 adoption.
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Bottomley, Sean David. "The British patent system during the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252288.
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Edward, S. Peter W. "Post-foundationalism, social transformation and the coming third Industrial Revolution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608934.
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Мельник, Леонід Григорович, Леонид Григорьевич Мельник, Leonid Hryhorovych Melnyk, Ірина Борисівна Дегтярьова, Ирина Борисовна Дегтярева, Iryna Borysivna Dehtiarova, Олександр Васильович Кубатко, Александр Васильевич Кубатко, and Oleksandr Vasylovych Kubatko. "Third industrial revolution as a way for green economy forming." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45278.
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Transition to sustainable economy through the Third Industrial Revolution occurs through a three united system of interaction of material and energy, information and synergistic factors. In its course prerequisites for the formation of green economy - "Economy of spacemen" are formed.
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Hodgson, Robert Ian. "Coalmining, population and enclosure in the Seasale colliery districts of Durham (northern Durham), 1551-1810 : a study in historical geography." Thesis, Durham University, 1990. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/961/.
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By reference to a wide range of sources and with an especial, but deliberately not exclusive, concern for events in Northern Durham, an attempt is made to reconstruct basic patterns of coalmining, population and enclosure. A second major task is to provide a framework of explanation for these patterns: to examine the factors which may have created and, in turn, destroyed them, and to explore ways in which the patterns may have been interrelated or interdependent. Rising demand for coal throughout the period 1551-1810, emanating chiefly from London, stimulated population growth within the mining districts, and the rise of an increasingly specialized industrial work force, in turn, put pressure upon agriculture to reform its technical and organizational structures in order to ease the task'of providing more locally grown food. Developments were not as simple as might be assumed from the above scenario, however. The variable attitudes and actions of decision makers were no less crucial than the uncertainties of natural resource endowment in determining the pace and location of developments through time and space, period and place. Landownership emerges as a dominant factor in understanding contrasts and similarities in the changing economic landscape of Northern Durham. An appreciation of the richness and variety of regional experience is essential to the formulation of descriptive or explanatory models of economic and social change.
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Marshall, Alexander William. "Exodus industrious : a new American dream for the next industrial revolution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79176.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Page 238 blank.
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Exodus Industrious has many beginnings, but few endings. Exodus Industrious is two parallel tales, told as one, which ultimately arrive at a critical moment in the history of the Americanism. Exodus is the story of capitalism and industry, and its antithetical decline which destabilizes a nation. Industrious is the story of the American Dream, a prodigal tale of the excess of Americanism, which was once rooted in a belief that if one possessed the characteristics of hard-work and self reliance, that they would ultimately reap the rewards of status, wealth, and power. Exodus Chronicles the rise and fall of the capitalistic state, while Industrious chronicles the industrious nature of the everyday American. The intersection of American industrial decline and the American dream, has prompted a new architectural vision of both. A vision which reacts to the failures of industry in solving societal problems, and the failure of the American Dream to sustain livelihoods. The vision seeks to mix the two, Industry and Domesticity, and recast them as an architectural solution to the problem which both have created. A rampant foreclosure crisis and skyrocketing unemployment. This new vision of the American Dream will be played out on a site in North East Detroit, in the Kettering Neighborhood. The Neighborhood is one of many which had been ravaged by the foreclosure crisis, as well as, the departure of a Major factory (The Packard Automobile Company) which would have once secured the livelihood of many of the residents of the Kettering Neighborhood, as well as, Detroit at Large. The proposal seeks to create an Anti-Capitalist Manufacturing Settlement, founded on the premise of Urban Revolution. The intention is to create four new Architectural Typologies Based on the Home, The Factory, The Warehouse and the Big-Box Superstore, which will attempt confront the political and social injustices which these typologies have arguably created, and propose a new interaction between them, which ultimately prompt a re-writing of the American Dream. We live in a nation in which 80% of the wealth is controlled by the top 5% of the populous, leaving the rest of us with no other option but Revolution. Revolution cannot be simply taken up as an occupation, or protest, it must be embodied via re-thinking the city, and re-assuming the right to the city, through the establishment of new architectural typologies. Architecture and Urban Space have the power to organize the masses, means of production, and the re-production of culture and through clever thinking, outside of the influence of capitalism, a new vision for the city can and must be envisioned. The intention of the thesis is to consider a new history, or a re-writing of an old one as the grounds for an architectural proposal. The American Dream and the rhetoric which surrounds it is the founding basis for action. The thesis seeks to examine the relationship between the single family home, manufacturing production, the maintenance of surplus value, and the distribution of commodities to a wider populous, while operating at the scale of a neighborhood of 3,000 - 5,000 people.
by Alexander William Marshall.
M.Arch.
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Pereira, Thales Augusto Zamberlan. "The cotton trade and Brazilian foreign commerce during the industrial revolution." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12140/tde-17082017-091648/.
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This dissertation provides a new interpretation for the rise and subsequent decline of Brazil as a cotton supplier to the British textile sector during the Industrial Revolution. Between 1791 and 1801, northeast Brazilachieved a market share of 40 percent in Liverpool. Contrary to what scholars previously argued,the chief cause for the rise of Brazil as a major cotton exporterwas its superior cotton fiber for the new calico and muslin textiles produced in Britain. Notwithstanding the initial success, Brazilian cotton exports stagnated after 1819. Previous interpretations argued that the decline of Brazilian cotton plantations was a result of labor shortagesand high inland transport costs. This dissertation instead provides evidence showing that cotton regions in Brazil had in fact a high density of slaves. Likewise, transport costs represented a small fraction of cotton market prices. For cotton planters, the largest economic burden was the fiscal policy implemented by the central government after 1808. The need to increase revenues led the central government to tax the most important commodities at the time. Export taxes represented the largest cost for cotton production in Brazil until the 1840s. As regional governments could not tax imports, they were left with little resources to invest in infrastructure projects that could offset the increasing costs of taxation. In the end, higher production costs reduced Brazil\'s ability to face the challenge of new competitors in the international cotton market during the nineteenth century.Essa dissertação fornece uma nova interpretação para a ascensão e subsequente declínio do Brasil como um fornecedor de algodão para o setor têxtil britânico durante a Revolução Industrial.Entre 1791 e 1801, o nordeste do Brasil alcançou uma participação de mercado de 40% em Liverpool.Contrário ao que os pesquisadores normalmente argumentam, a principal causa do surgimento do Brasil como um importante exportador de algodão foi a qualidade superior da sua fibra para os novos têxteis produzidos na Grã-Bretanha.Não obstante o sucesso inicial, as exportações brasileiras de algodão estagnaram após 1819. As interpretações anteriores argumentaram que o declínio das plantações brasileiras de algodão foi resultado da escassez de mão-de-obra e dos altos custos de transporte terrestre.Essa dissertação, no entanto, fornece evidências de que as regiões de algodão no Brasil tinham, de fato, uma alta densidade de escravos. Do mesmo modo, os custos de transporte representaram uma pequena fração dos preços de mercado do algodão.Para os plantadores de algodão, o maior fardo econômico foi a política fiscal implementada pelo governo central após 1808. A necessidade de aumentar as receitas levou o governo central a tributar as commodities mais importantes na época.Os impostos de exportação representaram o maior custo de produção de algodão no Brasil até a década de 1840. Como os governos regionais não podiam tributar as importações, ficaram com poucos recursos para investir em projetos de infraestrutura que poderiam compensar os crescentes custos de tributação.No final, os custos de produção mais elevados reduziram a capacidade do Brasil de enfrentar o desafio de novos concorrentes no mercado internacional do algodão durante o século XIX.
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Dowey, James. "Mind over matter : access to knowledge and the British industrial revolution." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3525/.
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This thesis argues that the British Industrial Revolution, which marked the beginning of sustained modern economic growth, was facilitated by the blossoming in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain of the world’s first infrastructure for commercial R&D, composed of a network of ‘Knowledge Access Institutions’ (KAIs): scientific societies, ‘mechanics institutes’, public libraries, masonic lodges and other organisations. This infrastructure lowered the cost of access to knowledge for scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, raising the productivity of R&D and encouraging a sustained increase in R&D effort. This contributed to the acceleration in technological innovation that lay behind the transition to modern economic growth. First, I define the concept of KAIs and explain how they affected the rate of economic growth. Second, I present detailed data on the KAI infrastructure and estimate its effect on the rate of technological innovation during the British Industrial Revolution, using newly constructed spatial datasets on British patents between 1700 and 1852 and exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Third, I argue that KAIs were largely exogenous to industrialisation, rooted instead in the intellectual developments of the Scientific Revolution and European Enlightenment. Fourth, I show that the prevalence of Knowledge Access Institutions was correlated with the emergence of modern economic growth across countries in the late nineteenth century and that the cost of access to knowledge was a binding constraint to economic progress shared by many countries during this period. Finally, based on the case of late nineteenth century US manufacturing, I investigate the extent to which the emergence of modern economic growth depended on the incentives to innovate rather than the capabilities lent by access to knowledge and other factors. The thesis suggests that the sharp fall in the cost of access to knowledge that we are currently experiencing may give rise to an acceleration in the rate of technological innovation in the coming decades and that policymakers should direct some effort towards mitigating the potentially harmful effects of rapid technological change.
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Sepp, E. (Elari). "Representation of British Society in paintings of the British Industrial Revolution." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201905302296.
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Abstract. This thesis examines how the Industrial Revolution was perceived and presented in British art of the Industrial Revolution. This is done by analysing selected paintings of the Industrial Revolution by painters who are considered to be among the most influential figures in British art, these being Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown. The three painters in question represent different stages of the Industrial Revolution, with Wright of Derby presenting its infancy, Turner presenting its peak and Madox Brown presenting its after-effects. The analysis of their works is supplemented with historical perspectives of the Industrial Revolution by both historians and polemic writers and artists. The paintings chosen for analysis are selected according to their relevance to the Industrial Revolution, with their cultural significance being considered as well. The study is focused on social developments over the course of the Industrial Revolution, and so the ways in which the Industrial Revolution changed and shaped British society are key elements in the analysis. The historical perspectives maintain that while the Industrial Revolution brought advancements in industry and transportation, it also led to working people living destitute lives, and it also caused immense pollution in urban areas, thus causing an increase in death rate in Britain. The polemic views claim that the Industrial Revolution caused the decline of the British countryside and led to the negligence of natural beauty to facilitate the increase of factories. The people who worked in factories had very limited options in their life, as their managers largely had complete control over them, and could thus abuse their workforce to optimise production.
The analysis found that the advancements of the Industrial Revolution were initially viewed with optimistic inquisitiveness along with feelings of wariness owing to the uncertainties regarding the advancements which were yet to come. Later on, the advancements became a regular part of life so that even wary observers adapted to them and altered their ways of thinking. Eventually the advancements led to the differences between social classes increasing, causing unemployment and general hardship among the working class. Industrialisation ultimately shaped British society so that it changed irrevocably, and common people ended up in a predicament where they had to adapt to the changes in the world they knew, regardless of how they felt about the changes in question.Tiivistelmä. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten teollinen vallankumous ilmeni vallankumouksenaikaisessa brittiläisessä kuvataiteessa ja millä tavoin siihen suhtauduttiin. Tutkielmassa analysoidaan valittuja maalauksia, joiden tekijöitä pidetään Brittiläisen taiteen tärkeimpinä edustajina. Kyseiset taiteilijat, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner sekä Ford Madox Brown, edustavat teollisen vallankumouksen eri vaiheita. Wright of Derby edustaa vallankumouksen alkuvaiheita, Turner sen huippua ja Madox Brown sen jälkivaikutuksia. Historioitsijoiden sekä vallankumouksenaikaisten kirjailijoiden ja taiteilijoiden näkemykset tukevat maalausten analysointia. Tutkimusaineistona olevat maalaukset on valittu niiden kulttuurisen arvon sekä sen perusteella, miten paljon ne ovat yhteydessä teolliseen vallankumoukseen. Tutkielma keskittyy yhteiskunnassa tapahtuneisiin muutoksiin teollisen vallankumouksen aikana, joten teollisen vallankumouksen vaikutukset brittiläiseen yhteiskuntaan ovat tärkeässä osassa tässä tutkielmassa. Historiallisten näkökulmien mukaan teollinen vallankumous johti teollisuuden ja kulkuneuvojen kehitykseen, mutta aiheutti myös köyhyyttä ja kaupunkialueiden saastumista, mitkä puolestaan johtivat kuolleisuusasteen nousuun Britanniassa. Kirjailijoiden ja taiteilijoiden mielestä teollinen vallankumous aiheutti brittiläisen maaseudun alasajon ja johti teollisuuden leviämisen kautta yleiseen välinpitämättömyyteen luonnon suhteen. Tehtaissa työskentelevillä ihmisillä oli erittäin vähän valinnanvapauksia, sillä työnjohtajilla oli heihin suhteessa täysi ylivalta, ja he saattoivat väärinkäyttää valtaansa tuoton maksimoimiseksi.
Analyysin kautta selvisi, että teollisen vallankumouksen tuomiin muutoksiin suhtauduttiin aluksi optimistisen uteliaasti ja toisaalta tulevaisuuden epävarmuuksien vuoksi varovaisesti. Myöhemmin näistä muutoksista tuli tavallinen osa elämää, ja näin varovaisemmatkin ihmiset sopeutuivat niihin ja muokkasivat omia ajatusmaailmojaan. Nämä muutokset lopulta johtivat luokkaerojen kasvamiseen, mikä puolestaan johti varsinkin työnväenluokan työttömyyteen. Teollistuminen muutti brittiläistä yhteiskuntaa pysyvästi, ja tavallinen kansa joutui tilanteeseen, jossa heidän täytyi sopeutua siihen, että heidän tuntemansa maailma muuttui riippumatta siitä, miten he itse suhtautuivat näihin muutoksiin.
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Lari, Michele <1993>. "The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Industry 4.0 and Made in China 2025." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14185.
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The thesis will focus on the development of the concept of Industry 4.0, especially in Germany, the first-mover country, and China, the most intriguing and peculiar example of how the definition of Industry 4.0 can be revised and modified.
The subject of this work is extremely important and critical, particularly due to the extreme growth that China and China manufacturing industry have had in the last years.
Understand what are the plans (mainly Made in China 2025, also called MIC 2025), what the perspectives (chinese investments, acquisitions of companies all over the world, efforts in the strengthen of laws and regulations..) and focus on the road and the path of adoption of these national plans can give us a better comprehension of the fast expansion of this oversized country called China.
The parallelism and the differences with Germany economy, and German “Industry 4.0 program” development plan, is the core of the thesis and will give us the chance to better understand what is the actual situation in both the countries, and if and why we must(or not) take care of this global phenomena.
In the first chapter a general view over historical facts (the previous industrial revolutions), the discussion over the main pillars, the globally most approved definitions of Industry 4.0, the enablers, the preconditions, the benefits and the challenges, and especially over the drivers of this transformation are given.
A quick analysis on the German “Industry 4.0 Program” and a deeper examination of the theorization and the application of the “same” concept in China, following the national plan called Made in China 2025, will take place in the second and in the third part of the research.
Analyze the differences, the common features, the different background and the different path of adoption will be the main focus of this research.
In conclusion the work will be completed with few concrete examples of the theories studied in this thesis, and a little room will also be given to the direct experience that the author has had in China during his academic stage for an Italian company.
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Whiteley, Pamela J. "Protoindustrialization in Berkshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1500-1850 : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388474.
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Thomason, Carmel Marie. "The artisan sector in English economic development : networks of provision in deadstock processing crafts, c.1600-1850." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/7f89d633-7865-430a-8ba0-fc1a562469a9.
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Hudson, Janet. "Residence and kinship in a clothing community : Stonehouse, 1558-1804." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/644a3aac-49ee-4800-b1d7-b9d97ab4b9cd.
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Malidin, Florian. "Implementing the Third Industrial Revolution : a case study of a French example." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98999.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).
Economic growth is now stalling in Europe and at the same time unemployment has remained at high levels for a long time. On the other hand, the United-States are posting record growth rates and enjoy low unemployment, in great part thanks to their exploitation of shale oil and gas that has provided a surge of economic activity in the sector and has benefited to the whole economy through cheaper energy. Europe cannot rely on such natural resources to restart its economy and is facing difficult times since the financial crisis. However, this problematic situation might be in fact an opportunity to renew its economic system and impulse a new wave of healthy economic activity by choosing the path of an energy transition. The underlying assumption of this thesis is that, beyond any environmental considerations, the energy transition represents an unparalleled opportunity to restore economic activity and cope with the challenges of this century. However, as beneficial as a new energy system might appear to be upfront, it definitely implies ambitious and complex transformations. This thesis explores practical ways, best practices and shortfalls to avoid to implement the energy transition by focusing on the case study of the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) Master Plan developed in collaboration with Jeremy Rifkin in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region in France. This region has decided to implement an energy transition plan for some obvious environmental motivations, but mostly for economic and employment-related ones. The thesis explains and reviews the concept of TIR, but it mostly spends time analyzing the NPDC Master Plan itself to explore the ways it has decided to implement its energy transition. The goal is to identify best practices and successes but also mistakes and failures on the path to making the TIR a reality. Hopefully, it will be useful for other projects of this kind, with the same ambitions for other regions of the world.
by Florian Malidin.
S.M. in Management Research
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Tika, Ivar. "PLC Demonstration Application” A Closer Look at the New Industrial Revolution 4.0." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-67297.
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Denna rapport går igenom den nya industriella revolution 4.0. Vi kommer se över hur den nya revolution 4.0 och process and producering industrin korrelerar. En genomgång av vad revolution 4.0 egentligen är, hur den är uppbyggd och vad den innebär. Vi kommer även gå igenom design aspekterna av ”industrie 4.0”. Parallellt med min undersökning av revolution 4.0 kommer jag att, på förteget Honeywell’s bekostnad, göra ett HMI till en PLC. Jag knyta ihop allt genom att visa parallellerna mellan centrala delar i revolutionen 4.0, så som kommunikations protokoll, och mitt projekt på Honeywell .In this thesis we will look at the new industrial revolution 4.0. I will explain what the revolution 4.0 is, how it correlates with generic industrial automation and I will also present design aspects of the industrie 4.0 and central communication technologies that are in line with the industrial revolution 4.0. In parallel with the study and research of the revolution 4.0 – I will, on Honeywell’s behalf, make a demonstrational human machine interface for a programmable logic controller. You the reader will have a solid understanding of the hierarchies that are found in the process and manufacturing industry. And how central communication technologies of the industrial revolution 4.0 correlates with the Honeywell HMI/PLC project.
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Frazier, Mark W. "The making of the Chinese industrial workplace : state, revolution, and labor management /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389557602.
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Panzarella, Federica <1988>. "The Green Industrial Revolution: the case of Toyota and the hybrid vehicle." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12536.
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The attention toward issues linked to the exploitation of global energetic resources has considerably increased in the last decades, considering both the related individual concerns and that of the governments all around the world regarding the sustainable development. Broadly speaking, the awareness about the necessity to preserve the environment of our planet replaced an abuse tendency that has been dominating the economy for a long time. This is confirmed and highlighted by the scientific research and by concepts like the “ecological footprint”, according to which we are currently using resources to an equal extent of 1.6 Earths, both for production purposes and to absorb our waste. I.e., it takes 1 year and 6 months for our planet to compensate the resources used in a year (Global Footprint Network). This insight creates serious worries about the way we can safeguard natural resources so that we can have them still available in the future, both for our and the following generations. Having a clear and objective framework of the current situation turns out to be fundamental in order to carry out effective actions to this end. Try to overcome the economic crisis bringing pressure on the environment is not an option, since the global warming and the resources’ scarcity are threatening our existence. The economic dimension is closely affected by these concerns, being undeniable the strict link between production processes and available resources. The concepts of Green Economy and Green Industrial Revolution started to become popular, representing an economy that wants to integrate with nature. The first part of this thesis deals with the origin and evolution of the Green Industrial Revolution. This new way of thinking may be the solution to a peaceful coexistence between our kind, our development model and the rest of the planet, which until now has been considered accessory. An economy that recognizes the fundamental importance of Nature and does its utmost to preserve it. Then my aim is to delve deeper into the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Another chapter analyses the concept and instruments of Energy Management. Finally, a case study is presented: Toyota and the hybrid vehicle.
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Gianolli, Francesca <1995>. "The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the future developments in the automotive industry." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17510.
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After a brief description of the concept of technological innovation, the types and patterns that these innovations follow over time, we will review the most important events that have been driven by the development of some breakthrough innovations: the industrial revolutions.
Subsequently, the main historical events of the first three industrial revolutions will be analysed, going then to focus on the concept of industrial revolution, which are the aspects that determine it and which are the characteristics of the innovations (products and processes) that have led to the development of these phenomena. For this reason, the concept of General Purpose Technology (GPT) will be introduced.
With this background, we will try to define whether the innovations that we are witnessing today can really represent the trigger of a new industrial revolution, already known as Industry 4.0, and the effects that could derive from it.
We will deepen the analysis of this new phenomenon focusing on an industry that heavily depend on technological innovation in every aspect from the production process to the final product: the automotive industry. We will concentrate on the current developments this sector is facing given the most recent technologies.
Finally, analysing a patent database of innovations that according to EPO’s directives can be classified as 4IR’s technologies, we will try to find out how the innovative landscape of the automotive industry is evolving, which are the potential new entrants in the market and which are the main trends of future innovation in this field.
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Hutton, Alexander Neil. "'Culture and society' in conceptions of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, 1930-1965." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708727.
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Morrison-Low, Alison Dorothy. "The scientific instrument trade in provincial England during the Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14003/.
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Katigbak, Kate Alexis. "'Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart' : mythologizing the Industrial Revolution." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10770/.
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This thesis will explore the evolution of the narrative of the Industrial Revolution, from the association of the Prometheus myth with ideas of science and revolution in the late eighteenth century to the development of a myth of the Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century. It will address works by Goethe, Mary Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with an aim to explore how they participated in using and creating myths to understand the social and economic changes affected by industrialisation in Britain. Chapter One will establish current problems within the historiography of the Industrial Revolution in order to introduce the concept of ‘mythistory’, before discussing Promethean narratives during the late eighteenth century, and the etymology of the term ‘Industrial Revolution’. Chapter Two will discuss Goethe’s Faust, and the ways in which Promethean ideas, as well as Goethe’s own worldview, transformed the old legend into a useful narrative with which to consider industrialisation. Chapter Three will explore the ways in which Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein undermined and questioned her contemporaries’ assumptions about the heroism of scientific endeavours. Together, these two chapters will establish the myths Marx and Carlyle used to engage directly with the Industrial Revolution. Chapter Four will discuss the works of Thomas Carlyle, specifically his early essays and Past and Present. It will underscore Carlyle’s admiration for Goethe, and his ‘great man’ approach to history, before analysing his own mythmaking. Chapter Five will follow on by studying the mythmaking of Marx and Engels, particularly in their early works, ‘The Communist Manifesto’, and Capital, Vol. 1. Discussion will concern how these authors contrast ideologically with Carlyle while nevertheless sharing a mythic diagnosis of present industry. Finally, the conclusion will discuss how these myths have since been processed, particularly by Humphrey Jennings in his composite text on the Industrial Revolution, Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886, as well as pointing out avenues for future research.
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Withall, Caroline Louise. "Shipped out? : pauper apprentices of port towns during the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1870." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:519153d8-336b-4dac-bf37-4d6388002214.
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The thesis challenges popular generalisations about the trades, occupations and locations to which pauper apprentices were consigned, shining the spotlight away from the familiar narrative of factory children, onto the fate of their destitute peers in port towns. A comparative investigation of Liverpool, Bristol and Southampton, it adopts a deliberately broad definition of the term pauper apprenticeship in its multi-sourced approach, using 1710 Poor Law and charity apprenticeship records and previously unexamined New Poor Law and charity correspondence to provide new insight into the chronology, mechanisms and experience of pauper apprenticeship. Not all port children were shipped out. Significantly more children than has hitherto been acknowledged were placed in traditional occupations, the dominant form of apprenticeship for port children. The survival and entrenchment of this type of work is striking, as are the locations in which children were placed; nearly half of those bound to traditional trades remained within the vicinity of the port. The thesis also sheds new light on a largely overlooked aspect of pauper apprenticeship, the binding of boys into the Merchant service. Furthermore, the availability of sea apprenticeships as well as traditional placements caused some children to be shipped in to the ports for apprenticeships. Of those who were still shipped out to the factories, the evidence shows that far from dying out, as previously thought, the practice of batch apprenticeship persisted under the New Poor Law. The most significant finding of the thesis is the survival and endurance of pauper apprenticeship as an institution involving both Poor Law and charity children. Poor children were still being apprenticed late into the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Pauper apprenticeship is shown to have been a robust, resilient and resurgent institution. The evidence from port towns offers significant revision to the existing historiography of pauper apprenticeship.
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Calabrese, Francesca <1992>. "Integrating Machine Learning Paradigms for Predictive Maintenance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10133/1/Tesi_CalabreseFrancesca.pdf.
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In the last decade, manufacturing companies have been facing two significant challenges. First, digitalization imposes adopting Industry 4.0 technologies and allows creating smart, connected, self-aware, and self-predictive factories. Second, the attention on sustainability imposes to evaluate and reduce the impact of the implemented solutions from economic and social points of view. In manufacturing companies, the maintenance of physical assets assumes a critical role. Increasing the reliability and the availability of production systems leads to the minimization of systems’ downtimes; In addition, the proper system functioning avoids production wastes and potentially catastrophic accidents. Digitalization and new ICT technologies have assumed a relevant role in maintenance strategies. They allow assessing the health condition of machinery at any point in time. Moreover, they allow predicting the future behavior of machinery so that maintenance interventions can be planned, and the useful life of components can be exploited until the time instant before their fault.
This dissertation provides insights on Predictive Maintenance goals and tools in Industry 4.0 and proposes a novel data acquisition, processing, sharing, and storage framework that addresses typical issues machine producers and users encounter. The research elaborates on two research questions that narrow down the potential approaches to data acquisition, processing, and analysis for fault diagnostics in evolving environments. The research activity is developed according to a research framework, where the research questions are addressed by research levers that are explored according to research topics. Each topic requires a specific set of methods and approaches; however, the overarching methodological approach presented in this dissertation includes three fundamental aspects: the maximization of the quality level of input data, the use of Machine Learning methods for data analysis, and the use of case studies deriving from both controlled environments (laboratory) and real-world instances.
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Perri, Liam <1991>. "Precariat and Free Labour: Work at the time of the Fourth Industrial Revolution." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11515.
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Volatile, incerto, complesso ed ambiguo è il mondo che ci circonda oggi, soprattutto a livello socioeconomico; l'innovazione tecnologica che a grandi passi sta introducendo il supporto della robotica in sempre più settori dell'operato umano non fa altro che corroborare la teoria che il "technological unemployment" ossia la disoccupazione causata dal progresso tecnologico sia il peggior nemico del lavoratore o neo-lavoratore di oggi. Questo scritto, col supporto di autori come Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz, Erik Brjniolfsson, Martin Ford, Guy Standing, Naomi Klein e molti altri si impegna a sfatare il mito della disoccupazione causata dal progresso. Evidenziando come a modellare l'universo lavorativo e di seguito anche le società di oggi siano presenti forze concomitanti al progresso tecnologico e altrettanto potenti, come la globalizzazione e la finanza rapace inserite nei sistemi economici mondiali, il testo suggerisce in chiusura una serie di iniziative utili e radicali per risolvere il problema della disoccupazione che opprime il mondo di oggi. Fa da intermezzo il caso studio del nascente settore della "Gig Economy", attività di lucro basata sul mondo delle "App", che sempre più segue le logiche nocive delle economie moderne.
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Coelho, Alexandre Semedo. "O resgate da Mundet." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19226.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.O Resgate da Mundet toma o título de um trabalho que se propõe a investigar, através do projecto de arquitectura, a regeneração da fábrica Mundet & Companhia, situada na Quinta dos Franceses, junto do antigo centro histórico do Seixal. A proposta assenta, tal como o nome o indica, numa intenção de salvaguarda do património industrial, para a qual, à partida, se oferece o desenho arquitectónico. A concretização do desígnio enunciado chama então a investigação de diversos temas, que se consideram em virtude de um projecto devidamente informado e consciente. Assim, o trabalho abraça a investigação do contexto histórico em que se insere o objecto de estudo, abordando o conjunto das revoluções industriais que se sucederam nos séculos que nos precedem. A investigação da forma fabril admite igualmente um papel preponderante no processo do trabalho, uma vez que o seu conhecimento se oferece a um melhor entendimento do objecto de estudo e à tomada de decisões no projecto. Por fim, a fábrica da Mundet toma a dianteira entre todas as vertentes exploradas. O trabalho compromete-se ainda a discutir a integração patrimonial da fábrica da Mundet, à luz de toda a investigação que a precede - discussão que se tem no interesse do objectivo primordial do trabalho. Paralelamente à investigação, investiu-se no planeamento urbano da envolvente à fábrica da Mundet, componente que se constitui a partir de uma análise profunda e criteriosa sobre o lugar do Seixal, fundamentando-se no paradigma actual que se propõe ao desenvolvimento da cidade metropolitana contemporânea.
ABSTRACT: The Rescue of Mundet is the title of a work that proposes to investigate, through the architectural design, the regeneration of the Mundet & Companhia factory, located in Quinta dos Franceses, near the old historical center of seixal. the proposal is based, as the name implies, on an intention to safeguard the industrial heritage. For that several subjects are undertaken, by virtue of a properly informed and conscious project. thus, the work embraces the research of the context in which the object of study is inserted. First, it addresses the industrial revolution that precede us. secondly, seeks to understand the industrial typology. Finally, the Mundet factory takes the lead among all the explored subjects. All, this knowledge serves the understanding of the object of study, thus providing a better judgment on the decision-making process of the project. the work also undertakes the discussion of the industrial heritage - in the light of all the research that precedes it - proposing the integration of the Mundet - a discussion that is held in the interest of the primary objective of this work. parallel to that investigation, is carried out the urban design of the factory surroundings. this component is based on an in-depth and careful analysis of seixal, based on the current paradigm proposed for the development of the contemporary metropolitan city.
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McConnell, Kathleen L. "Significant silences and muted machines, textile tropes in British literature around the Industrial Revolution." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ66669.pdf.
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Strachan, Sabina Ross. "The Laird's Houses of Scotland : from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, 1560-1770." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3485.
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The purpose of this research is to define the architectural development of laird’s houses. The term ‘laird’s house’ can imply, simply, ‘the house of a laird’. Architecturally, it is used to describe a category of dwelling first defined in broad terms by John G. Dunbar in 1966 (The Historic Architecture of Scotland). This thesis seeks to detail, firstly, what is meant by a ‘laird’ in the context of one who is responsible for the building of ‘laird’s houses’ and, secondly, the physical attributes of a ‘laird’s house’. A national overview of the development of laird’s houses is then provided, principally based on the findings of a regionally-based approach. In-depth studies on the Scottish Borders, Shetland, and Skye, the Western Isles, and the Small Isles form Part II. The final part is a gazetteer of the laird’s houses in these three areas together with a suggested format for a national gazetteer. The earliest surviving examples of laird’s houses date to the 1570s and ’80s. However, there is evidence to suggest that they may have first appeared around the mid-16th century. Through the compilation and analysis of samples, and the detailed investigation of key examples through fieldwork, documentary and comparative research, two types of laird’s house are discernible and are defined in this thesis as ‘Type I’ and ‘Type II’. Dunbar’s hypotheses that: 1) the laird’s house developed from the tower-house; and 2) a new type of laird’s house was introduced in the 1680s or ’90s, are tested and developed. It is proposed here that the two-storey Type I laird’s house could equally have developed up from single-storey dwellings as down from the tower-house. Also, rather than ‘hybrid’ examples representing a transition from tower-house to laird’s house, a similar Renaissance vocabulary could have been applied to houses of different scales. The Type II seems to have derived both from its direct predecessor and, from the 1670s, was influenced by new classical ideas and, later, the widespread availability of pattern books. The most important conclusion developed from the regional studies is that many buildings which have been identified by others as ‘bastle houses’ are, rather, better described as ‘laird’s houses’. In addition to defining the Type I and Type II laird’s house therefore, this thesis seeks to provide: 1) the first detailed national overview of laird’s houses; 2) a greater understanding of them through regional studies focused on their emergence (1560– 1645), the development of the Type I (1589–1730), and the development of the Type II (1670–1770); and 3) a framework for a Scotland-wide gazetteer of this building type.
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Barley, Simon L. "Hand tool manufacture during the Industrial Revolution : sawmaking in Sheffield c.1750-c.1830." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490327.
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This thesis is the first study of one of Britain's mcuor hand tool industries, saw manufactming, between it., Sheflield Oligins in the mid-18d • century and its rapid development, at the expense of the older centres of the industry in London and Binningham, to a dominating position by 1830. 'I'he reasons for this pre-eminence are shown to lie in factors the combination of which was unique to Sheflield: the most imp0l1ant were the production of a new form of steel (crucible cast), extensive water powered metal-working f~lcilities, special local grindstone production, and a centuries-long tradition of secondary metal-wares, especially cutlery. Saw manuf~lcturing, previously unknown there, was taken up from 1757 onwards by a small number of Sheflield's most prosperous and innovative entrepreneurs, one of whom, Joseph vVilson, has left an archive of largely unexamined documents that have enabled the historical reconsuuction of his businesses from 1746-1775. Wilson's records, and otller original sources, show that saw making was usually closely associated with steel making, and that the use of crucible steel, together with the rolling of the steel plate for saw blades, at once lowered the price of saws by about one tlIird. Rapid expansion of the industry followed, and by about 1830 tliere were more saw-making firms in Sheflield (almost 70) than in the whole of the rest of Britain combined. Fmther documents from two firms of the 1820s have been used to show that Sheflield's saw makers were mctior exporters to Europe and North America. 'The scale and speed of the saw industry's rise are used to argue tliat regional development during the study period could be extremely rapid and yet be unrecognised in national, aggregated statistics, lending support to those who argue that if the whole picture could be examined, economic growth of imp0l1ant parts of the economy from 1760-1830 was neither gradual nor slow. Sheflield's sawmakers were fi'om the 1760s making a wide range of tools. Their sophisticated marketing techniques, offering many diflcrent qualities of products aimed at purchasers from working carpenters to gentlemen of leisure, closely resemble tllOse of other retail trades of the period. Former research into other branches of hand tool manufacture would provide more detail about the essential tools of the era before machinery.
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Sittivaekin, Wit. "Gramsci and the conditions of successful revolution : organicity, intellectuals and the new industrial relations." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297627.
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Wiese, Melandri. "An expository review of robot tax in the era of the fourth industrial revolution." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80426.
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Background: The looming Fourth Industrial revolution unveils advanced technology, such
as robots which will reshape the workforce completely, resulting in a depletion of tax
revenue, since they are currently not being taxed. Various scholars and tax-industry experts
have proposed taxing the robots, in order to curb this phenomenon.
Main purpose of study: The primary objective of this study is to determine whether the
notion of imposing tax on robots is feasible. In order to address this research objective, it
was imperative to determine what has previously been published on robot tax, as well as
the current understanding thereof.
Method: Academic articles, including industry reports and working papers on scholarly
databases such as Google Scholar, EbscoHost and ProQuest were utilised in performing a
systematic review on robot tax. A total of seventy publications were found on the scholarly
databases, after which the search criteria were applied, in order to screen the publications.
Of the seventy publications, only thirty-three publications were selected for the systematic
review. Results: After analysing the publications, it was evident that robot tax is a complex issue
with the majority of the authors proposing that some form of direct tax should be levied on
the robots.
Conclusions: It is evident that more research and debate are needed, in order to fully
comprehend the extent and complexity of this topic. Subsequently, experts should then be
able to suggest plausible solutions to curb revenue loss, without discouraging innovation
and automation.Mini Dissertation (MCom (Taxation))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Rosa, Wilhelm. "Arquitetura industrializada: a evolução de um sonho à modularidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-26052010-103825/.
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Este trabalho é um estudo para conhecimento de como evoluiu a aplicação e utilização, na arquitetura e na construção civil, das tecnologias de produção a partir da Revolução Industrial. Especialmente entender por quê , até hoje, as pesquisas, propostas e realizações de arquitetura industrializada são modelos que permanecem isoladas e marginais ao processo de industrialização.Apresenta breves históricos das tecnologias de produção e das propostas e realizações de arquitetura industrializada, o suficiente para se ter uma visão geral e poder entender os conceitos e definições sobre assuntos que fazem parte do universo de referencia da industrialização da construção.Termina com um assunto ainda novo em arquitetura, a Modularidade, mas sem indicar caminhos para a sua aplicação .This dissertation studies knowledge about production technologies, and how this knowledge evolves into application and utilization in architecture and civil construction, in the historical period after the Industrial Revolution. We try to understand why, to this day, research, proposals and realizations in industrialized architecture are models that stay apart from the industrial process. We follow short reports about production technologies and about the proposals, experiences and construction in industrialized architecture, in order to understand the concepts and definitions in industrialized construction. The last chapter shows a new issue in architecture, Modularity.
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Nardello, Matteo. "Low-Power Smart Devices for the IoT Revolution." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/274371.
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Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolutionary paradigm approaching both industries and consumers everyday life. It refers to a network of addressable physical objects that contain embedded sensing, communication and actuating technologies, to sense and interact with the environment where being deployed. It can be considered as a modern expression of Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing where tiny networked computers become part of everyday objects, fusing together the virtual world and the physical word.
Recent advances in hardware solutions have led to the emergence of powerful wireless IoT systems that are entirely energy-autonomous. These systems extract energy from their environment and operate intermittently, only as power is available. Battery-less sensors present an opportunity for the pervasive wide-spread of remote sensor deployments that require little maintenance and have low cost. As the number of IoT endpoint grows -- industry forecast trillions of connected smart devices in the next few years -- new challenges to program, manage and maintain such a huge number of connected devices are emerging. Web technologies can significantly ease this process by providing well-known patterns and tools - like cloud computing - for developers and users. However, the existing solutions are often too heavyweight or unfeasible for highly resource-constrained IoT devices.
This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of two of the biggest problems that the IoT is currently facing: R1) How are we going to provide connectivity to all these devices? R2) How can we improve the quality of service provided by these tiny autonomous motes that rely only on limited energy scavenged from the environment?
The first contribution is the study and deployment of a Low-Power Wide-Area-Network as a feasible solution to provide connectivity to all the expected IoT devices to be deployed in the following years. The proposed technology offers a novel communication paradigm to address discrete IoT applications, like long-range (i.e., kilometers) at low-power (i.e., tens of mW). Moreover, results highlight the effectiveness of the technology also in the industrial environment thanks to the high immunity to external noises.
In the second contribution, we focus on smart metering presenting the design of three smart energy meters targeted to different scenarios. The first design presents an innovative, cost-effective smart meter with embedded non-intrusive load monitoring capabilities intended for the domestic sector. This system shows an innovative approach to provide useful feedback to reduce and optimize household energy consumption. We then present a battery-free non-intrusive power meter targeted for low-cost energy monitoring applications that lower both installation cost due to the non-intrusive approach and maintenance costs associated to battery replacement. Finally, we present an energy autonomous smart sensor with load recognition capability that dynamically adapts and reconfigures its processing pipeline to the sensed energy consumption. This enables the sensor to be energy neutral, while still providing power consumption information every 5 minutes.
In the third contribution, we focus on the study of low-power visual edge processing and edge machine learning for the IoT. Two different implementations are presented. The first one discusses an energy-neutral IoT device for precision agriculture, while the second one presents a battery-less long-range visual IoT system, both leveraging on deep learning algorithms to avoid unnecessary wireless data communication. We show that there is a clear benefit from implementing a first layer of data processing directly in-situ where the data is acquired, providing a higher quality of service to the implemented application.
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Nardello, Matteo. "Low-Power Smart Devices for the IoT Revolution." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/274371.
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Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolutionary paradigm approaching both industries and consumers everyday life. It refers to a network of addressable physical objects that contain embedded sensing, communication and actuating technologies, to sense and interact with the environment where being deployed. It can be considered as a modern expression of Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing where tiny networked computers become part of everyday objects, fusing together the virtual world and the physical word.
Recent advances in hardware solutions have led to the emergence of powerful wireless IoT systems that are entirely energy-autonomous. These systems extract energy from their environment and operate intermittently, only as power is available. Battery-less sensors present an opportunity for the pervasive wide-spread of remote sensor deployments that require little maintenance and have low cost. As the number of IoT endpoint grows -- industry forecast trillions of connected smart devices in the next few years -- new challenges to program, manage and maintain such a huge number of connected devices are emerging. Web technologies can significantly ease this process by providing well-known patterns and tools - like cloud computing - for developers and users. However, the existing solutions are often too heavyweight or unfeasible for highly resource-constrained IoT devices.
This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of two of the biggest problems that the IoT is currently facing: R1) How are we going to provide connectivity to all these devices? R2) How can we improve the quality of service provided by these tiny autonomous motes that rely only on limited energy scavenged from the environment?
The first contribution is the study and deployment of a Low-Power Wide-Area-Network as a feasible solution to provide connectivity to all the expected IoT devices to be deployed in the following years. The proposed technology offers a novel communication paradigm to address discrete IoT applications, like long-range (i.e., kilometers) at low-power (i.e., tens of mW). Moreover, results highlight the effectiveness of the technology also in the industrial environment thanks to the high immunity to external noises.
In the second contribution, we focus on smart metering presenting the design of three smart energy meters targeted to different scenarios. The first design presents an innovative, cost-effective smart meter with embedded non-intrusive load monitoring capabilities intended for the domestic sector. This system shows an innovative approach to provide useful feedback to reduce and optimize household energy consumption. We then present a battery-free non-intrusive power meter targeted for low-cost energy monitoring applications that lower both installation cost due to the non-intrusive approach and maintenance costs associated to battery replacement. Finally, we present an energy autonomous smart sensor with load recognition capability that dynamically adapts and reconfigures its processing pipeline to the sensed energy consumption. This enables the sensor to be energy neutral, while still providing power consumption information every 5 minutes.
In the third contribution, we focus on the study of low-power visual edge processing and edge machine learning for the IoT. Two different implementations are presented. The first one discusses an energy-neutral IoT device for precision agriculture, while the second one presents a battery-less long-range visual IoT system, both leveraging on deep learning algorithms to avoid unnecessary wireless data communication. We show that there is a clear benefit from implementing a first layer of data processing directly in-situ where the data is acquired, providing a higher quality of service to the implemented application.
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Brunt, Liam. "New technology and labour productivity in English and French agriculture 1700-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324812.
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Sullivan, Gwen. "Productive adaptation and industrial relations in a socialist-oriented development strategy : a study of Nicaraguan metalworking enterprises, 1980-87." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285759.
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McGuire, Sara Anne. "Noxious Smoke and Silent Killers: Identity, Inequality, Health, and Pollutant Exposure During England’s Industrial Revolution." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594403381913239.
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Selebogo, Remofilwe. "The impact of digitalisation on tax revenue in the fourth industrial revolution : a systematised review." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80514.
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Background: Digitalisation has evolved around the world, as such resulting in the use of computer-generated systems as opposed to making use of human capital. The fourth industrial revolution has introduced the use of artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning. It is established that, where the computerised systems, such as robots replace human workers, the government may lose large amounts of income as personal income tax is a high revenue contributor for governments. As a result of the many technological advancements being explored, it is crucial that the tax systems are updated to accommodate the changes which may be experienced in the market.
Main purpose of study: The main purpose of this study is to understand and explore the impact digitalisation has on tax revenue where the digitalised revolution is being explored. In this regard, the current study systematically analyses existing published literature relating to the impact of digitalisation on tax revenue in the fourth industrial revolution.
Method: The current study is based on the interpretation and analysis of existing literature gathered from credible academic journals. The research method followed in this study is a qualitative research method which follows a systematic review.
Results: After analysing the publications, it is noted that digitalisation and tax is a complex issue with the majority of the authors concluding that the fourth industrial revolution has
resulted in automation having a huge influence not only on the unemployment rate but also on the economy of countries.
Conclusions: The study indicates that technological advancements may result in high unemployment as human workers are replaced by computer-generated systems. As individuals are the main revenue contributors for the government, tax authorities might have to explore the introduction of a tax on the technological advancements to make up for the loss to the fiscus.Mini Dissertation (MCom (Taxation))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Fay, Poppy. "Sounds of industry : reactions to music and noise in nineteenth-century Manchester : ...on the lips, in the halls , on the streets /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/3593.
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Manchester, in the first half of the nineteenth century, held great fascination to many as an example of a town being remade and transformed by the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution. The transformations experienced included the rapid physical expansion of the town and its population and the reordering of its society from a traditional, rigid class structure, involving a powerful aristocracy and working-class citizens, to a new social hierarchy with a numerous and influential middle class—an emerging ‘urban aristocracy’ of people involved in manufacturing, commerce and other professions. As these changes took place, the rest of England (and the Western world) looked on—horrified, shocked, awed, fascinated. It was a different world, and the rapid changes taking place in society created in observers a sense of urgency in describing the effects of those changes—particularly the social problems, which had been shaped by industrial life.A trend in describing Manchester’s residents as ‘philistines’ and the town, generally, as a ‘cultural wasteland’ took hold at this time and has been perpetuated until fairly recently. This thesis explores this trend—Manchester’s nineteenth-century image—and the impact of contemporary opinion on constructions of social hierarchies and cultural reputations. It also aims to show that there was more to Manchester’s cultural life in the nineteenth century than is widely acknowledged, either by contemporaries from the period or by some scholars today, and that the pursuit and experience of music and certain noises was genuinely wanted by the manufacturing class for a number of key reasons.
Delving further, into studies of soundscapes and ‘noise,’ it becomes ever clearer that sound, and how individuals and societies interact with it and interpret it, acts as an important—though frequently overlooked—signifier of class relations and civic identity. Finally, this thesis aims to reconstruct how Manchester sounded in three principal regions of the town to show how a study of soundscapes helps to articulate how the town was psychologically constructed in the minds of inhabitants and visitors, and how it was sensed and experienced.
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Мельник, Леонід Григорович, Леонид Григорьевич Мельник, Leonid Hryhorovych Melnyk, Ірина Борисівна Дегтярьова, Ирина Борисовна Дегтярева, and Iryna Borysivna Dehtiarova. "Innovation Vectors of Greening Economy in Third and Fourth Industrial Revolutions." Thesis, Riga Technical University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/66683.
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Абстрактний аналіз, що забезпечує елементи формування зеленої економіки, а також представляє роль третьої та четвертої промислових революцій у цьому процесі. Це відображає соціально-економічні перетворення, спрямовані на формування децентралізованого виробництва відновних джерел енергії. Вона також зосереджується на трансформації економічної системи для сталого розвитку, яка відбувається через дематеріалізацію використання енергії та матеріалів та потоків, озеленення економіки та, як наслідок, зменшення людського сліду в умовах третьої та четвертої промислової революції.Абстрактные анализы, обеспечивающие элементы формирования зеленой экономики, а также представляют роль Третьей и Четвертой промышленных революций в этом процессе. Он отражает социально-экономические преобразования, направленные на формирование децентрализованного производства возобновляемой энергии. Он также фокусируется на преобразовании экономической системы для устойчивого развития, которое происходит за счет дематериализации использования энергии и материалов и потоков, озеленения экономики и, как следствие, сокращения человеческого следа в условиях третьей и четвертой промышленных революций.
The abstract analyses providing elements for forming green economy as well as presents the role of the Third and Fourth Industrial Revolutions in this process. It reflects the socio-economic transformations targeted at the formation of decentralized renewable energy production. It also focuses on economic system transformation for sustainable development, which occur through dematerialization of energy and material usage and flows, greening the economy and as a result reduction of human footprint in conditions of Third and Fourth Industrial Revolutions.
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Cox, Christopher R. "Synthesizing the Vertical and the Horizontal: A World-Ecological Analysis of 'the Industrial Revolution', Part I." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1944.
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'The Industrial Revolution' is simultaneously one of the most under-examined and overly-simplified concepts in all of social science. One of the ways it is highly under-examined is in the arena of the ecological, particularly through the lens of critical world-history. This paper attempts to analyze the phenomenon through the lens of the world-ecology synthesis, in three distinct phases: First, the history of the conceptualization of the Industrial Revolution is examined at length, paying special attention to the knowledge foundations that determine these conceptualizations. Secondly, I sift out what I believe is the dominant model throughout most of modern and now postmodern history, which I identify as the techno-economic narrative. I then present the main critical world-historical challenge to that argument (that the Industrial Revolution was a unified, linear, two-century phenomenon) by outlining the critical interpretations of Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, among others, leading a view of industrialization that is over the very long term, or what Braudel referred to as the longue durée. This long-view form of critical historical analysis is unabashedly Marxist, so there is some foray into various pieces of the Marxian canon, pieces that are often left untouched or at the least under-utilized in many politico-economic analyses of environmental history and politico-ecological narratives as well. Thirdly, I attempt to bring this new long-form view of industrialization more firmly into the ecological, but filtering the basic presuppositions of the 'techno-economic' narratives and the Marxist 'critical world-historical' narratives through the presuppositions of Jason W. Moore's world-ecology synthesis. What we arrive at through this filtering process is a very different view of the Industrial Revolution than we are used to hearing about. This is Part I of a much larger research process, one that I intend to bring into the present and future by looking at the development process of the BRICS as the next extension of the Industrial Revolution. What this paper is most concerned with is re-igniting what I think is a valuable debate among theorists, economic historians, and Marxist ecological thinkers, the debate about what exactly this phenomenon was, is, and will be. My small contribution is to re-define it in relationship to its really-existing history, including its antecedents and possible future expansions.
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Wilkin, Felicity Susan. "The application of emerging new technologies by Portsmouth Dockyard, 1790-1815." Thesis, Online version, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.300017.
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Frainer, Daniel Massen. "A estrutura e a dinâmica da indústria automobilística no Brasil." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/30638.
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Esta tese trata de uma análise da estrutura e a da dinâmica da mudança na indústria automobilística brasileira a partir de 1990. A hipótese é de que as mudanças na estrutura e na dinâmica da mudança é produto do contexto no qual a indústria esta inserida e do processo ininterrupto de introdução de inovações. Primeiramente foi analisado o contexto no qual a indústria surgiu no mundo e seu desenvolvimento posterior na economia brasileira. Os períodos de formação e consolidação da indústria automobilística estariam relacionados com as revoluções tecnológicas. Secundariamente, foram analisadas as abordagens da organização industrial que darão suporte as análises da indústria automobilística partindo do mainstream, passando pela abordagem institucionalista e neo-schumepeteriana. A combinação desses enfoques busca superar as limitações da abordagem do mainstream, para analisar os contextos fui utilizada a abordagem institucionalista e para analisar o processo de introdução de inovações foi utilizada a abordagem neo-schumpeteriana. Os resultados encontrados com a aplicação do estrutura-conduta-desempenho (mainstream), analisando dados da indústria automobilística brasileira a partir de 1990. Os resultados apontaram para uma redução na concentração da indústria, sem que isso traduzisse em queda na lucratividade do setor. Quanto às condutas, há uma tendência por maior diversificação e diferenciação de produtos, principalmente, a partir de 1999, em parte devido à entrada de novas montadoras no mercado. Com relação a introdução de inovações, as principais montadoras estabelecidas apresentaram estratégias voltadas para maior intensificação de gastos em P&D em relação a receita líquida de vendas e redução no tempo de lançamento de novos modelos de automóveis. Os processos de produção e formas organizacionais tornaram-se mais enxutos e com inovações pela incorporação de microeletrônica, permitindo um ajuste mais rápido da produção e a incorporação de novos modelos de automóveis. Conclui-se que houve uma reestruturação completa dessa indústria seguindo uma trajetória própria. Novamente, não foi possível afirmar que haja a convergência para um modelo único de produção nem mesmo um caminho único adotado pelas montadoras dessa indústria no Brasil.This thesis is an analysis of the structure and dynamics of change in the Brazilian automotive industry since 1990. The hypothesis is that changes in the structure and dynamics of change is the product of the context in which the industry is inserted, and the uninterrupted process of introducing innovations.We first examined the context in which the industry has emerged in the world and its subsequent development in the Brazilian economy. The periods of formation and consolidation of the auto industry would be related to the technology revolution. Secondarily, we analyzed the approaches of industrial organization that will support the analysis of the automotive industry starting from the mainstream, through the neo-institutionalist approach and schumepeteriana. The combination of these approaches overcome the limitations of the mainstream approach to examine the broader institutionalist approach was used to analyze the process and the introduction of innovations we used the neo-Schumpeterian approach. The results from the application of structure-conduct-performance (mainstream), analyzing data from the automobile industry since 1990. Results showed a reduction in the concentration of industry, without this translate into a drop in profitability in the industry. As for the pipes, there is a tendency for greater diversification and product differentiation, especially after 1999, partly due to the entry of new manufacturers in the market. Regarding the introduction of innovations, the major manufacturers had established strategies for better leveraging of expenses on R & D in relation to net sales and reduced time to market for new cars. Production processes and organizational structures have become leaner and innovations by embedding microelectronics, allowing a faster adjustment of production and incorporation of new car models. It is concluded that there was a complete restructuring of the industry following a trajectory. Again, it was not possible to say that there is convergence to a single model of production or even a single path adopted by automakers such industry in Brazil.
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Saunders, Julia Edwina. "White slavery : Romantic writers and industrial workers, 1790-1840." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:655d1502-34a7-4bf7-b0e6-fa8a85a31b43.
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In this thesis, I argue the case for putting the industrial revolution back into literary accounts of the Romantic period. Writers of fiction played an important part in disseminating knowledge about the changes to technology and society, as well as helping to form the image of the newest social class: that of the industrial workers. Literature aspired to educate and integrate this class, as well as to influence the parallel process of educating the upper classes about the advent of the new manufacturing order. I have taken as the governing metaphor for industrialization that of 'white slavery', drawing the contrast to the contemporary movement to abolish black slavery. To illustrate the thesis, I have chosen six writers: three Romantic poets - Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth - and three women educationalists - Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth and Harriet Martineau, each of whom represents a significant philosophical approach to a manufacturing society and who each made an important contribution to imaginative literature. Whilst the Romantic poets analysed industrialization as a divisive and demoralizing phenomenon and looked to the past for solutions, the educationalists responded to the challenge presented by the factory system by suggesting new visions of social relationships which bound moral and economic behaviour together. The thesis aspires to restore the voices of neglected women writers in the industrial debate with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the Romantic period and a fuller comprehension of its creative expression.
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Toledo, Eli Fernando Tavano [UNESP]. "Industrialização de Bauru: a atividade industrial e o espaço geográfico, das origens à situação atual." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/95630.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar a evolução da indústria na cidade de Bauru. A formação econômica do município foi fortemente marcada pelas culturas de exportação, do início do século XX, sendo os principais motores do início da industrialização bauruense. A expansão da cafeicultura e do algodão foi fortemente influenciada pela demanda internacional. O estudo constatou que a cidade de Bauru, como média cidade, possui infraestrutura suficiente para polarizar uma grande região no oeste paulista. Sendo o setor econômico mais representativo o comércio. A industrialização da cidade não esteve, diretamente, vinculada ao desenvolvimento da região metropolitana de São Paulo. Assim, o processo de formação do setor secundário teve elementos locacionais como fatores mais importantes para o crescimento industrial. A presença da infraestrutura de transportes e a localização, no centro do Estado de São Paulo, foram os fatores mais expressivos apontados pelos entrevistados e captados na pesquisa através dos questionários/formulários. Pela pesquisa, o município apresenta dois compartimentos distintos de ramos industriais. O primeiro compartimento é formado por empresas que são influenciadas pela agropecuária da região. O segundo grupo possui indústrias que não necessitam diretamente da agropecuária regional.
The present study aims at showing Bauru’s industrial evolution. The economic development of the city was strongly influenced by early twentieth century export culture, which was the engine of its industrialization. The expansion of coffee and cotton crops was profoundly guided by international demand. It was perceived within the study that the city of Bauru, as a medium size city, has got enough infrastructure to polarize a great share of the west area within São Paulo State. The city holds commerce as its most representative sector. The industrialization of Bauru wasn’t directly linked to the development of São Paulo city metropolitan area. Thus, the improvement of its secondary sector had local elements as important factors for industrial growth. The existing transport foundation at the time and its location in the heart of São Paulo State were the most expressive aspects pointed out by the people who were interviewed and it was also observed during the research through questionnaires and formularies. According to this investigation there are two different divisions in the city’s industrial field. The first one being formed by companies which are cattle-breeding influenced and the second being formed by companies which do not directly depend on local cattle-breeding industry maintain itself.